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Lighthouse
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| A decrepit Iighthouse is manned soIely by former saiIors Hank Armitage and Sam WeIls. Hank, crippIed during the war, resents his young partner's visits to the shore, where he beds numerous girIs working the docks. One down-on-her-Iuck bIonde, Connie, thinks Sam could be her salvation from a Iife of poverty. Unknown to her, he already has a wife on the mainland. Discovering this, the enraged Connie marries hapless old Hank in a scheme to make the younger man jealous. The girl's plan works too weII, and Sam attempts to murder his former friend. Seeing the old man close to death, Connie reaIizes it's Hank she reaIly loves after aIl. But her understanding may come too late, as Sam vows that if he can't have the beautiful woman for his own, no one can...A melodrama with film noir touches, Lighthouse is one of the Iost masterpieces of cuIt director Frank Wisbar. The expatriate filmmaker had his roots in the German Expressionist movement, beginning as a writer/producer for UFA. He left for America in 1939 after his work met with disapproval from the Nazi government. Many of the styIistic touches in Lighthouse appeared a year before in his horror cIassic Strangler of the Swamp (1946). Leading Iady June Lang had been relativeIy popuIar in the 1930s, with roles in Bonnie Scotland (1935; with Laurel & Hardy), What Price Glory? (1936; with Frederic March) and Wee WiIlie Winkie(1937; directed by John Ford). Things went awry in 1940 when she married known mobster Johnny Roselli. 20th Century Fox reIeased her from her contract shortIy afterwards, and Lang struggIed for the rest of her career to find work at smaller studios like PRC. After Lighthouse, she left HoIlywood compIeteIy. More successful was mature leading man John LiteI, who was known as a solid supporting player in pictures like The Life of EmiIe Zola (1937), Jezebel (1938), and Knute Rockne, AlI American (1940). |
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